Still, we'll keep the meter from plummeting too far: Palin has been candidate-level vocal lately on a couple of issues that are important to her base. She called President Obama's reversal of his position on the Defense of Marriage Act "appalling," and tweeted that the Supreme Court's ruling that the Westboro Baptist Church was allowed to protest outside military funerals was a decision absent of "common sense & decency." (This marked a return to Twitter after a week of silence, and a generally reduced presence on the site since the Arizona shootings.) Also, noted Palinographer Dana Milbank is back from his Palin-free month. Palin obviously wouldn't have wanted to drop any big news without him along for the ride.

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